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Recapturing a Killer Flu Virus.
- Source :
- Bulletin with Newsweek; 5/10/2005, Vol. 123 Issue 6469, p42-42, 1/3p, 1 Black and White Photograph
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This article focuses on Asian flu. Last September, Meridian Bioscience Inc., a medical company, began sending out more than 3,700 virus-test kits to labs throughout the United States and 18 other countries, all part of a routine quality-assurance program to ensure that such facilities are accurately identifying biological agents. The problem is that the kits included a deadly flu strain that had killed more than 1 million people in the 1957 Asian flu pandemic. The company's lapse raised the alarming prospect of a new epidemic. The kits reached such terrorist havens as Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14407485
- Volume :
- 123
- Issue :
- 6469
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Bulletin with Newsweek
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 17092407